Chip Selloff Drags Bitcoin Below $63K, Citadel Bets $400M on Crypto.com, Tokenization Expands

Markets close Friday on a risk-off note as Bitcoin slips to sixty-three thousand forty-six dollars, dragged lower by a global semiconductor rout that sent Asian chip stocks into correction territory. Despite the weakness, institutional capital continues pouring into crypto infrastructure-Citadel Securities just invested four hundred million dollars into Crypto.com at a twenty-billion-dollar valuation while Alpaca raised one hundred thirty-five million to expand tokenized stock offerings. Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to three days with three hundred sixty-eight million in fresh capital, potentially reversing months of outflows. On the regulatory front, Todd Blanche faces Senate grilling over crypto enforcement rollbacks as the CLARITY Act nears a vote. We cover the semiconductor contagion spreading from Asia to crypto markets, the wave of institutional investment reshaping digital asset infrastructure, and technical signals suggesting Bitcoin may remain range-bound between sixty and sixty-seven thousand near-term.